ICB language trainer Philip Thiel recently completed a two-week volunteer mission sponsored by ICB to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, at the Centre for Information Systems Training where he provided feedback on their English training program and offered ideas and encouragement upon how to improve their practices based upon ICB methods. (click to view photos and a complete report)
The ICB group participates in the U.N. « Global Compact » project in order to establish a framework of good practice to promote human rights, work ethics and respect for the environment at an international level.
ICB respects the Work Code at every level and is particularly attentive to Articles L 123-1 to 123-7 concerning equality for women, Articles L 140-2 to 140-6 concerning equal pay, the Professional Training Federation’s Agreement, and the contracts signed with employees.
We regularly organise staff representative elections.
We have a paper, plastic bottle and ink cartridge recycling program.
As a member of the FFP, the ICB group is committed, alongside the other members, to promote an ethical approach to our profession.
Each year the group offers a summer work experience opportunity to a student who wins a competition at the Pembroke Hill High School in Kansas City, U.S.
Meet our 2008 intern: Ailea Stites
The CIST in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, trains future I.T. technicians in the context of an economy in cruel need of qualified workers.
The ICB group shares its pedagogical knowledge with the school’s pedagogical team and offers free English training to the future trainers of the CIST. (click to view photos and a complete report)
Through the donation of second-hand course books, the ICB group is contributing to the establishment of an English resources library for the school intended for underprivileged young people.
For more information: www.cistrain.org
The ICB group contributes to some UNICEF France activities.